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US President Donald Trump made more than $1bn (£750m) last year from business dealings in cryptocurrency, according to his mandatory financial report for 2025.

In a 927-page disclosure, he reported $635m in royalties from a Trump meme coin that has plunged in value since he launched it days before taking office.

He also reported over $500m in income from World Liberty Financial, a cryptocurrency firm founded by his own sons and the children of his special envoy, Steve Witkoff.

Trump also earned millions more from real estate and Trump-themed items. But the White House denied he was profiting from the presidency.

White House deputy press secretary Anna Kelly said the president had proudly made the US "the crypto capital of the world".

"Neither the President nor his family has ever engaged - or will ever engage - in conflicts of interest," she said in a statement.

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A woman who was raped by Superdry co-founder James Holder has told the BBC she had been working for him at the time of the attack.

Gemma, not her real name, was attacked by the disgraced fashion boss in her own home after Holder got into her taxi following work drinks in 2022.

In an exclusive interview, she described feeling fear and dread on the following Monday morning as she walked into work at a new business Holder had launched after leaving Superdry in 2016.

Holder, 54, was jailed in May for eight years for raping Gemma.

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Sudanese paramilitaries committed crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing during their campaign to seize the city of el-Fasher last year, a rights group report said.

The siege and takeover of the city in the western region of Darfur marked one of the bloodiest episodes in Sudan's civil war between Sudan's army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

"The RSF's crimes included murder, forcible transfer, imprisonment, torture, rape, sexual slavery, other forms of sexual violence, enslavement, extermination and persecution," said an Amnesty investigation released on Wednesday.

The RSF has not commented on the Amnesty report but has denied previous such accusations.

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US special envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump's son-in-law ‌Jared Kushner are in Doha to discuss the US-Iran negotiations with mediators, Qatar's foreign ministry spokesman says.

But they will not meet Iranian officials there.

In this episode of The Iran War Today, we take a look at rising tensions and diplomatic efforts in the Middle East, with reports and analysis from our correspondents across the region and beyond.

With reporting from Bernd Debusmann, Kasra Naji, Carrie Davis, Lina Sinjab, and analysis from Jeremy Bowen.

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Across the world, countries are announcing plans to radically overhaul their military strategies and integrate technologies which are changing the face of the battlefield.

So what will warfare look like over the coming decades? How much will it cost and which countries pose - and face - the greatest threats?

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Former Made in Chelsea star and maternity campaigner Louise Thompson quizzed the UK health secretary on a newly announced maternity commissioner role.

Thompson said she was "infantalised' during a traumatic labour.

James Murray said he will set out the scope for the role "in the next few weeks" before getting it into legislation "as quickly as possible".

It comes after a government-commissioned review found the NHS maternity care system in England is "not fit for the now and not fit for the future".

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An unassuming lumpy grey fossil that’s been sitting, forgotten in a drawer in Cambridge for the last 40 years has turned out to be something very precious.

It was collected during an expedition to Antarctica in 1985, but after being re-discovered by the collections manager, it’s now been analysed by scientists and has proved to be the first dinosaur bone ever discovered in Antarctica.

Not only that, but it’s from a type of Titanosaur - the family of dinosaurs that were the largest ever to walk the Earth. Its re-discovery gives us a better understanding of how these giants roamed all parts of the Earth millions of years ago.

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US and Iran exchange strikes and accuse each other of violating ceasefire | BBC News

The US has conducted new strikes on Iran, following a drone attack on a Panama-flagged vessel in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday.

US Central Command (Centcom) said it hit multiple targets across Iran in direct response to "continued aggression" against commercial shipping.

In retaliation, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it has launched missiles and drones at US infrastructure in Kuwait and Bahrain, in a statement shared to state media.

Following the exchange of fire, the US and Iran accused each other of violating the ceasefire agreement.

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Residents and families are desperately searching the rubble for their loved ones and belongings. They are listening carefully for any sound that might indicate someone is alive trapped under the concrete and metal wire debris.

So far, officials have confirmed at least 1,430 deaths from the magnitudes 7.2 and 7.5 earthquakes - the latter being one of the strongest quakes recorded in the country in the last century.

Hundreds of buildings collapsed and beneath the rubble, thousands of Venezuelans remain. The number of dead and injured rises by the hour. The UN estimates around 50,000 people are missing.

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Today we look at what Andy Burnham’s plan for the UK economy is.

We reveal what he’s expected to say in a speech on the economy on Monday, who the people advising him on it are, and who he might make chancellor.

Victoria Derbyshire is in for Laura. She and Paddy are joined by economics editor Faisal Islam, who’s been looking at what a Burnham Treasury might look like.

00:00 What’s Burnham’s economic plan?

00:04:07 Victoria’s interview with Burnham, the fiscal rules moment

00:07:37 Breaking down Burnham’s answer to the fiscal rules question

00:12:24 What might he say about the economy on Monday?

00:17:46 What can we learn about Burnham’s economic views from his book?

00:20:02 The churn of Prime Ministers in the UK

00:23:39 Who is in the chancellor race?

00:28:05 Bringing in James Purnell as his chief of staff

00:34:44 Burnham’s beliefs

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